When he is finally ready to go camping, Gordon has to add one more thing to his supplies--a friend to help him carry them.

Gordon Korman’s uproarious, outrageous, and all-too-familiar summer camp adventure is BACK! Rudy Miller really isn’t into the whole camping thing. So when his parents send him to Camp Algonkian “for his own good” all he wants to do is go home. Rudy teams up with his cabin-mate Mike for a series of carefully planned — yet hilariously bungled — escape attempts. Unfortunately, their counsellor (and nemesis) Chip is as determined to keep them there as they are to get away. Rudy and Mike spend their days plotting, playing chess, and working off punishments for their failed escapes. Hmmm, maybe it isn’t such a bad way to spend the summer after all . . .

Tiberius and his friends investigate a strange noise, which leads to a very spooky night-time adventure!

This resource book is intended to aid parents of children aged 2 to 5 years in teaching geography. The book offers ideas about how to encourage and give direction to enable young children to develop the vocabulary, awareness, and curiosity necessary to lay the foundation for the study of geography. Suggested activities are included and are organized around five specific themes. The themes are: (1) "Where are things located?" (2)"What characteristics make a place special?" (3) "What are the relationships among people and places?" (4) "What are the patterns of movement of people, products, and information?" and (5) "How can the Earth be divided into regions for study?" Each chapter begins with background, examples of questions geographers ask, and explanations of the early developmental skills that are involved. A 16-item reference list and glossary conclude the book, along with maps, a resource list with suggestions of where to get free maps, and a list of easy reading or picture books related to geography. (LB)

A year has passed since Ryan and the Adventure Squad solved the disappearance of Jenni-Anne and his world has turned upside down. His relationships with Alex and Suzette have become tenuous and distant. And to make matters worse, the ghost of Jenni-Anne now haunts his dreams. After taking a job to help remodel an old building that was moved from the old mining town named Gordon, Ryan and Alex find a mysterious box hidden in a wall. They realize that Ryan’s visions and the box are connected. Soon the visions begin showing Ryan the final days of a young miner and the events that led to his death a hundred years before. Ryan and Alex find out that a flash flood had swept through the mining camp of Gordon, destroyed the bank, and took with it a strongbox full of gold coins and payroll for the miners. That treasure has never been found. Jenni-Anne informs Ryan that the treasure can only be found if the Adventure Squad can work together. Can Ryan bring his team back together, understand the ghostly teaching of Jenni-Anne, and discover the treasure of Gordon? Or will darker, sinister forces hiding in the shadows claim the treasure and more? The fate of the Adventure Squad hang in the balance as they try to solve the mystery of Gordon’s gold!